- “Has India already beaten the super-infectious new Covid variant?” – U-turn in exploding cases is proof Arcturus is just another ‘scariant’, experts say after warnings of carnage, reports MailOnline.
- “Fauci wants all the credit, none of the blame” – Should the President have used his judgment to ignore Fauci’s guidance? Of course. Is Fauci presenting his role in the pandemic accurately? Not even close, according to Tim Meads in the Daily Wire.
- “Revisionist history: Fauci and Weingarten distance themselves from the school closure policy they enacted and encouraged” – The media does not hold them accountable because they are political allies, says Prof. Vinay Prasad.
- “WHO insider gives analysis of its $31 billion pandemic plan” – Garrett Brown, a Professor of Global Health Policy who was recently hired by the WHO to determine whether its $31 billion plan for pandemic preparedness and response is feasible, has expressed concerns about the cost-effectiveness of the initiative, reports the Epoch Times.
- “CDC eases certain Covid vaccine requirements for international travellers to U.S.” – International travellers boarding flights to America will now be considered fully vaccinated two weeks after getting a single dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine, according to CNN.
- “Japan drops Covid border measures” – Passengers arriving in Japan will no longer be required to submit proof of vaccination or negative test results, according to the Straits Times.
- “Rise of the Ulez ‘Blade Runners’” – MailOnline speaks to the underground activists who’ve vowed to stop at nothing until they’ve “taken down every one of Sadiq Khan’s low-emission cameras’.
- “California approves rule banning diesel trucks by 2036” – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved new regulations and voted to ban the sale of diesel big rig trucks by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Best and worst times to charge an electric car over May bank holidays to avoid queue chaos” – Electric car drivers looking to get away for the bank holiday weekends in May are being warned of which times to avoid when looking to charge in public, according to the Express.
- “Meat is crucial for human health, scientists warn” – Close to a thousand experts unite behind statement that rejects “zealotry” of plant-based diets and promotes livestock farming, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ron DeSantis: I back Kemi Badenoch in her war on wokery” – In an interview with the Telegraph, White House hopeful says the U.K. is “like a second home”.
- “Bristol University bans public from feminist event with Stonewall-critical lawyer” – Invited speaker Akua Reindorf KC has previously drawn the ire of transgender activists, reports the Telegraph.
- “The fear to speak freely still haunts university campuses” – Politicians have failed to provide adequate safeguards, leaving the task of resisting censorious activists to brave academics, says Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
- “Why they hate Tucker Carlson” – The liberal elite’s fear of Fox News is really a fear of the white working class, argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The first woke President” – Joe Biden has institutionalised identitarian dogma, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Golden State’s ‘failures’ spark exodus” – More than 700,000 Californians fled the state since 2020, often moving to central states and powerhouses like Texas and Florida, reports the Express.
- “The troubling truth about ‘gender affirming’ mastectomies” – In the Spectator, Kim Thomas explains some worrying realities of elective ‘top surgery’.
- “Montana bans transgender medical interventions for minors” – Senate Bill 99 prohibits puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries for children, reports Fox News.
- “Anti-Semitism row erupts as Guardian under fire over ‘vile’ Richard Sharp cartoon” – Illustration of former BBC chairman described by Sajid Javid as something that “wouldn’t have looked out of place in a Nazi newspaper”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Anheuser-Busch hires ex-GOP aides to lobby conservatives after Dylan Mulvaney controversy” – Disclosures show that weeks ago the embattled company hired lobbying firm Origin Advocacy, reports the New York Post.
- “Progressive LGBT group pressures Bud Light to renew transgender support amid Dylan Mulvaney fallout” – The Human Rights Campaign says Anheuser-Busch’s response to controversy showed a “lack of fortitude”, reports Fox News.
- “You’ve talked about the woke mind virus in really apocalyptic terms” – Watch Bill Maher quiz Elon Musk about some of his statements condemning woke ideology on Real Time.
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This is the army veteran that was sent down for two years for posting words online. Only nonces get mitigating circumstances which would see them avoid jail, it seems. Judges sympathize with perverts and hate patriots, go figure;
”A former soldier who made Facebook posts referring to “civil war” in the aftermath of the Southport attacks has been jailed for two years.
Daffron Williams, 40, who served on tours of Afghanistan and Iraq, previously pleaded guilty to a charge of publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred relating to public posts made between July 19 and August 11.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the posts, made before and after three girls were fatally stabbed at a dance class on July 29, included Williams describing Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, as a “f***ing hero”.
Judge Lloyd-Clarke added: “I accept you have strong personal mitigation but given your encouragement to others to act – your references to civil war and to bullets – I am satisfied this offending is so serious that only custody is sufficient.”
Prosecuting, Alex Orndal said Williams had pleaded guilty to the charge against him when he appeared before Cardiff Magistrates’ Court in August and had been in custody since then.
In one Facebook comment, Williams said: “I am racist as f***, only to those who sap the life out of society and disrespect culture. Our future as British is so uncertain it is unreal.”
On July 24, he wrote: “Come on guys, it is time to stand up. Everything our ancestors, grandparents and parents fought for is ruined. Let’s do something.”
https://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/national/24731771.former-soldier-jailed-social-media-posts-inciting-racial-hatred/
And this is that horrendous woman, Maitlis, talking to a man who defends paedophiles, Sopel, about free speech, off the back of the Allison Pearson incident;
“Many are seeking to create a persecution complex.”
https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1858563321034662376
Another numpty Leftard here. 7 years for ”inciting racial hatred”. So shall we just go right ahead and decriminalize paedophilia then? It’s certainly getting that way, isn’t it? What happened to proportionality??
‘We can’t go around ignoring crimes just because they’re politically sensitive.’
The Crime Commissioner for Essex, Roger Hirst, defends the police investigation into journalist Allison Pearson.”
https://x.com/LBC/status/1858131078013501730
If you get sent to jail they have taken away all you have. If you do that to people you can create monsters you cannot control. And we the people see what you are doing. And we will remember.
Remember the Southport girls for the vile state has forgotten them.
He should not have leaded guilty. It is free speech. The state and the legal profession are our polrical enemies now. They are abusing our laws to crush our freedom. This will not end well. We are living in a communist state. We will remember who they are.
He was probably advised and wise to plead quilty… They dont like it when you waste their time, and the sentences are much longer after a trial that he would most likely have lost..
I pleaded not gulity once, on principle..
I fought the law… And the law won..
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What will Putin do about Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine?
Nobody in government in the West any longer cares what Putin might or might not do. The performance (lack of it) of the Russian Army has turned him into a ‘paper tiger’.
They’ve heard it all before. Repetition dulls the impact of threats eventually into white noise. Biden doesn’t care, Macron no longer cares, Scholz has shot his bolt and Starmer believes he has a mandate to get stuck in.
If Putin goes nuclear, the world will fall on his head. Russia will lose not just Eastern Ukraine, Georgia, but all the territories which once were part of China; the Russian ‘Union State’ will disintegrate; neutered.
He is in a quagmire of his own making. He thought the West was degenerate, now he confronts a U.S. President of immense personal courage who, unlike Putin, knows what it is like to be shot at, and how to respond.
Putin has walked into America’s preferred scenario: ‘Russia weakened so that it can no longer invade its neighbours’; for the U.S. a major foreign policy success allowing it to pivot towards Asia.
Interest rates above 20%, rampant inflation, shortages of essential items like butter; that, together with a stuttering war, casualties, every prospect that the situation will deteriorate in 2025, is the classic recipe for internal unrest, defenestration, even revolution….
Whatever he does now, he will have to negotiate, sooner or later…..probably sooner would be good, certainly for him.
No-one is interested in negotiation, just the continued funnelling of public funds into heavily-veiled bank accounts and untraceable onward transactions.
Human life and geopolitical stability be damned, the usual suspects’ avarice must be fed.
Everyone is interested in negotiation so that they can restart the energy deals Gerhardt Schroder, ex German Chancellor and so many other political bag men are so fond of and so that the Putin stipends to political parties across Europe can be resumed.
Putin is interested in negotiation. His posturing is necessary to buttress his support amongst those in Russia profiting from the war, leeching corrupt millions from defence deals; a big part of the reason why the Russian Army’s performance has been so poor.
Come now, profiteers abound wherever profit is to be expected. Such as BlackRock, who bought up most of Ukraine’s arable land. Now why are they so interested in farm land? Has that something to do with the West attacking farmers and their products? Is the intention to create a shortage in the world’s food production? That would make BlackRock’s investment really profitable – coincidence?
Unlike the West?
I served, I saw the waste and the insane contracts first hand. What I saw and heard of elsewhere cemented my decision to leave – it was all a giant lie.
If you have evidence of corruption within British defence procurement, you should hand it to the Police. The difference is that if you do that in Russia you will be arrested and then murdered.
What utter nonsense!
Exactly, tbis conflict like all others is about shifting public funds in to private hands…
1 million or so dead.. Phaa.. Who cares..
The performance (lack of it) of the Russian Army has turned him into a ‘paper tiger’.
Tell that to the 2,320 Ukrainian soldiers killed just yesterday (according to the Russian MoD).
If Putin goes nuclear …
Putin, as always, shows remarkable restraint. He knows that Biden only wants to spoil Trump’s inauguration. However, it would be nice if USA war hawks – including those supposedly chosen to occupy key positions in Trump’s team – demonstrated equal restraint.
… the Russian ‘Union State’ will disintegrate; neutered.
Which is exactly what USA has been trying to achieve since 2008 (not to mention before). USA is always keen to assert its global hegemony.
He thought the West was degenerate …
How could anyone possibly believe the West is degenerate? Ask any DS reader …
And Ukraine was degenerate by voting an actor for President, an actor who famously pretended he could play a piano with his penis. To be fair, he promised them peace but then somebody changed his script.
… for the U.S. a major foreign policy success allowing it to pivot towards Asia.
Exactly. US must maintain its global hegemony: first destroy Russia and then go after China. Damn these upstarts! How dare they challenge USA’s global dominance?
And how beneficial is USA dominance for UK? Our greatest ally since WWII but who charged us for every penny assistance during that conflict, while awarding even more financial and military assistance to USSR at zero cost.
I also believe our empire days were due to expire but FDR was determined to ensure that was exactly what happened – precisely to allow USA to take over that dominant role.
Noddy’s guide to negotiations:
‘Trump may be just as helpful as the Biden administration, given the latter’s caution, and the need for Trump to be seen as a credible dealmaker, rather than selling Ukraine down the river.
Some in Trump’s new team, notably incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, have spoken……of using the prospect of more robust support for Ukraine as leverage in pushing Putin to negotiate.’
Why must we automatically assume the Russians cut the undersea cables?
Quite so. In fact there is discussion as to whether a dragging anchor or deep trawl equipment may have done the damage. I believe investigation equipment is en route to establish the facts.
Well, that theory was propounded by CNN, which is an absolute parody of a broadcaster, similar to the BBC.
Labour is facing a civil war over Net Zero
In fact the world faces a civil (world) war over Nut Zero.
‘These (BRICS) nations—many of them still early in their development as modern societies—are in no mood to compromise on their national energy security and the use of fossil fuels.
At the heart of the declaration lies a fundamental truth that the Western climate industrial complex often refuses to recognize: Access to affordable and reliable energy and economic development cannot be sacrificed at the altar of “decarbonization” if people are to thrive.
The Kazan declaration’s emphasis on “technological neutrality” is particularly telling. By explicitly endorsing the use of “all available fuels, energy sources and technologies,” including fossil fuels with abatement technologies, BRICS nations have effectively rejected the notion of a rapid phase-out of conventional energy sources.’
‘Directly challenging the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, the Kazan statement labels such levies as “unilateral, punitive and discriminatory protectionist measures.” This is a rejection of the EU’s attempt to export its climate policies through trade.
Most of the components for solar energy systems come from China, which produces 80% of the globe’s solar panels. Because coal still dominates the Chinese energy mix, Western nations buying Chinese solar panels are effectively outsourcing their carbon dioxide emissions while claiming progress toward net-zero goals. It is all illogical.
The BRICS leaders emphasize that their immediate goals — poverty eradication, infrastructure development, and economic expansion — require a secure and stable energy supply.
The Kazan declaration isn’t just a political statement; it signals a new era in global climate-energy politics. Emerging economies will no longer be distracted from their pursuit of prosperity and are departing from the currently dominant U.N. climate frameworks.’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/18/brics-kazan-declaration-trumps-cop29-climate-blather/
The West either wakes up and returns to de-regulated free trade as the engine of global economic and social development or, alternatvely, faces an intensifying geo-political conflict whose first bloody manifestation is, arguably, (BRICS member) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Tory members are deluded if they think they can get back in. No one will believe a bunch of Remainers who say the 14 years was a big mistake and now they know better.
We are not fools.
I hope you are right. But conservative may be conservative in their voting.
And with this electoral system the non-Labour vote may again be divided, giving Starmer a second term, god forbid..
I am off this morning to support the farmers in their protest. What an awful weather… hope the weather gods help us a bit.
How on earth did the Mail’s ‘Southport rumours’ get past the newspaper’s lawyers?
That there has been no challenge to the “rumours” speaks volumes. Somebody wanting to keep a lid on it and avoid any risky deep-dive into the cause of such scurrilous rumours?
I speculate, of course.
JC summing up in five minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-SEY39eP54&list=WL&index=7